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Minnie Royal Cherry - Raintree Nursery
Minnie Royal Cherry - Raintree Nursery

Minnie Royal Cherry

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$64.99 - $64.99
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$64.99 - $64.99
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SKU C825

Prunus avium x 'Minnie Royal'

Minnie Royal is a medium-sized red cherry variety prized as an excellent pollenizer for Royal Lee and other cherry cultivars. Known for its firm texture and rich flavor, this productive cherry ripens 11-14 days ahead of Bing, making it ideal for extending your harvest season. With a low chilling requirement of just 400-500 hours, Minnie Royal thrives in warmer climates and performs exceptionally well when paired with a compatible pollenizer such as Royal Lee. This patented variety (U.S. Plant Patent No. 12942) combines reliable productivity with superior fruit quality, making it a smart choice for home orchardists seeking both pollination support and delicious fresh cherries.

Hardy to USDA Zone: 7

Mature Height: 30' (Standard)

Sun: Full Sun

Ripening Time: July

Pollination: Needs a Pollinizer

Rootstock: Mazzard

Read our Cherry Growing Guide

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  • I live in mendocino county where the temperature is consistently between 50 and 60 degrees, will this cherry tree grow here?

    Do you mean the winter temps are between 50 and 60 degrees? If so this is a low-chill variety of cherry, so it needs to be below 45 degrees for 400-500 hours each winter. So if it gets cold enough at night, you should be good to go. These trees are from Modesto, so depending on where you are it should produce just fine.

  • I live in San Diego along the coast about 5 miles from the border. I’m not sure if we have enough cold weather here for cherry trees but for berries we often ice them at their base. 1.) Would a handful of nights with a forty pound ice down around its base create an environment similar to the chilly nights a low chill cherry tree would need to bloom? My second question is a cherry trees must be cross pollinated with a different variety of cherry tree? So other flowering/fruiting trees like an apricot or a lemon tree will not produce flowers or flowers that will set for fruit?

    Minnie Royal and Royal Lee require 200-300 chilling hours, which you should be able to achieve without any buckets of ice. As for pollination, the short answer is yes, cherries are required to pollinate other cherries. These two cherries, along with Almanden Duke, bloom together and will cross pollinate each other. Other cherries may bloom too late.

  • Will these pollinate well with Craig's Crimson or Black Gold varieties?

    No, they bloom too early. You will need another early blooming sweet cherry, like Royal Lee, to ensure good cross pollination.

  • Can I just 2 of these to pollinate or does it need different variety? I'm interested in the dwarf tree. Also how would it do in hot Texas summer? I'm in zone 8 Dallas Texas. Would it be better to get partial shade or just full on sun?

    No, you will need a Royal Lee or Royal Crimson for pollination. It should do well (these were bred in Southern California), but will need permanent irrigation.

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D. T.
Minnie Royal Tree

The trees arrived in great shape! They are healthy and already leafing out when I removed them from the box. I soaked them in water for 2 days and then planted into a large pot. I will transfer to the ground when winter hits... I am anxious to see how they do, I am in Galveston County and I may be the only one with home grown cherries!!!

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Jin X.
Minnie Royal Cherry Tree

I received this tree as one of the three trees purchased. Two others being the pollinator Royal Lee Cherry and a Fuji Persimmon tree. The leaves were yellow when I opened the box and soaked for a day as directed. Within half of day of being the ground, the yellow leaves already turned green. The pictures here when I first planted it in April/May being about 4 feet high and now in September being about 6 feet tall. I live in zone 8b in East Texas, a place known to be hot and wet (and we experienced a very wet spring and mild summer), but even though I wished I planted them a little higher than the surrounding ground, they all did so well.

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Chass S.
1 of 2 broke dormancy

Bought the Royal Lee and Minnie Royal Cherry Trees. Both were beautiful little bare root trees when they arrived. I planted both side by side (10ft apart) and the Royal Lee is absolutely thriving here in Zone 9B. Saldy, the Minnie Royal never broke dormancy. They both received the exact same care, sun, water, etc and I have more that 20 fruit trees in my backyard, so I'm not sure what happened with the Minnie Royal. Wouldve been 5-stars, if both woke up, but I'll put it right in the middle... 3-stars.

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Frank P.
Cherries

Very nice trees, arrived on time according to the shipping schedule. Trees have been planted and seem to be doing well.

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Heather D.
Solid bare root tree

Bare root looks healthy. Packaged well, no damage. Good root system, thick stem. Leafed out immediately. I have high hopes for this variety in south central Texas.

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Tamara S.
Well Packaged, Already Budding

After losing citrus trees to freeze for the second time in two years, I decided to go a different direction with my replanting. When I found these dwarf cherry trees, I was thrilled. They arrived with damp packing around the roots and already budding. I followed Raintree’s planting instruments, so now we’ll just see how it goes. Fingers crossed. I’ll update after a few months